We need your help
to spread the word about the WebAward competition. As the premier
recognition program for Web site development, we have grown each
year because Internet professionals, like yourself, have gotten the
word out to other Internet professionals by email, in blogs and even
face to face.

The Web Marketing
Association is a volunteer organization and it’s through efforts
like these that the WebAwards can set the standard of excellence for
Web sites in 96 industries. However, this year, we have made it even
more advantageous to tell your friends and co-workers about the
WebAwards.

WebAward
Referral Program

To reward those who
tell others about the WebAwards, this year we are offering a $25
referral bonus per referral for each person who gets someone new to
enter the WebAwards. It’s our way of rewarding those who help us
the most.

To qualify you
simply need a WebAward nominator account from WebAward.org. Give the
email address associated with this account to everyone who you
recommend the WebAwards to and when they enter and include your
email address, you’ll receive a check from the Web Marketing
Association as our way to say thank you.

WebAward.org has
complete details, so tell a friend and log in to your nominator
account and watch your referral bonuses add up.

Call for
WebAward Judges

Another way you can
help support the WebAwards is to nominate yourself as a judge. We
are looking for experienced Internet professionals – interactive
creative directors, graphic designers, marketing managers,
webmasters, heads of agencies, among others – to help adjudicate the
entries for the 2006 WebAwards.

While most of the
volunteer judges return each year because of the valuable insights
that can be obtained by judging, the growth of entries requires us
to add new judges each year. Judges are assigned a number of
entries to review within a three week time frame beginning June 17th.

If you or someone
you know are interested in participating as a WebAward judge, please
use the judges nomination form on WebAward.org

Conference
season

At WebMaster World
in Boston we gave-a-way a video iPod to Daniel Bourgeois interactive
marketing manager of Wynn Resorts. The following week, David
Mullings of Random Media won another video iPod ad ad:tech San
Francisco. Congratulations to all of our prize winners and to the
conference sponsors for putting on outstanding industry conferences.

On my way to
ad:tech in San Francisco, I read MarketingSherpa’s brand-new
E-commerce Benchmark Guide. I am a big fan of MarketingSherpa’s
work and try to get everything they publish on Web development. We
were able to get a 22-page executive summary of MarketingSherpa’s
E-commerce Benchmark Guide for the readers of Interactive Briefing.
You can read more about it in the “For Our readers” section of this
newsletter.

The annual WebAward
program is shaping up to be both a great way to gain visibility for
your self and your Web site, but also valuable feedback to help
guide future development and benchmark your progress. We hope
everyone takes advantage of this program.

P.S. Remember the
deadline to enter the 2006 WebAwards is May 31st. This
year a late fee will be assessed to all entries finalized after that
date, so don’t wait for the last minute and get your entry in early.

WebAward Competition
– The 2006
Call for Entries had begun and it looks like it will be the biggest
and best WebAward ever! Don’t wait until the last minute, entry your
best work early. The deadline for entry is May 31st.

9-11 May 2006, Earls Court, London,
UK
Internet World is the UK’s largest B2B internet event.
Directors from MSN, e-Bay, Lastminute.com, Virgin and more
delivering keynote presentations. Supported by Net Communities and
endorsed by The Guardian, Revolution, Marketing, e-Consultancy,
mad.co.uk and others.
For more information and to register for FREE visit
www.internetworld.co.uk

P.S. Help us to get the
word out. Please forward this newsletter to other Internet
professionals you feel could benefit from its information.